UNITED NATIONS DAY 2017
Speech by Mr. Karel Frielink – Dean of the Consular Corps of Curaçao
United Nations Day – 24 October 2017
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Your Excellency, the Acting Governor of Curaçao, Mrs. Nolda Römer-Kenepa
The Prime Minister of Curaçao, Mr. Eugene Rhuggenaath
The Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Curaçao, Mrs. Marilyn Alcalá-Wallé
The Minister of Social Development, Mr. Hensley Koeiman
The Deputy President of our Parliament, Mrs. Giselle Mc William
The Secretary General to UNESCO, Mrs. Marva Browne
Commander of the Armed Forces on Curacao, Brigadier General De Vin, and the Commanders of the MNCCC
Fellow members of the Consular …
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WILL 2012 BE A BETTER YEAR?
It depends on us!
What do you and I have in common? That we probably, just like all other people on earth, are descended from a people that lived in Africa in a far past. Thus considered we are all brothers and sisters. One big family, one big community, but not as closely and not as strongly connected as many of us would like it to be.
In the course of history differences have increased. Differences, for example, in appearance, in color, in language, in religion, in culture, in education, in prosperity etc. And with these differences, contradictions arose: between …
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